Uplift Mighty Prep Middle School

Size

Uplift Mighty Prep Middle School is the 3rd largest of Uplift Education's 13 middle schools; its 516 students are 2.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 528 students, so Uplift Mighty Prep Middle School is close to their typical size.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 7 with 178 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 161, against an average of 172 per grade. This year grade 8 has 10% more students than grade 6 (177 against 161). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 71.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Uplift Education (64.8%). Black students are next, at 23.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.6% across Uplift Education and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Uplift Mighty Prep Middle School has 28.58 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 516 students would have about 35.8 teachers, so Uplift Mighty Prep Middle School has 7.2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other middle school is Int'l Newcomer Academy, 1.2 miles away in Fort Worth ISD. There are 15 middle schools within 5 miles and 47 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.